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Myths of Security. by John Viega

Market wants to believe that one security product will solve all their security problems. Update AV,software and talk to genuine sites online. good and bad intelligent guys. security is a performance overhead. Making things simple  can be difficult. There is no silver bullet for any solution. Intention: money,ego Nothing can ever be frozen in the software field. selling to endusers or companies? illegal software masquerading as legal. security  problem of browser. geting access to one pc on corporate lan. what data of yours is available on social networking sites can be used to create a personalized attack on you. compromise a website/page that has active users. rest attack. get control of a system and use it for further attacks using botnet software. vendors who do lots of different things are rarely best at anything. ad companies are evil. dat files or signature files. if there are no thieves, the police has no job. if there is no one to buy, the one who sells is out of job. what is